Peter Kahn (David Grun), Jim McConkey, Gnossos Papadopoulos, Richard Farina. If survival can be accomplished... Before London and Paris, there was Ithaca.
Fascinating - I know one of the two Englishmen mentioned in this letter that Farina played with in Paris. He is writing a book with me about playing on the streets in Paris and London and beyond in the sixties... He mentions playing with Farina and his dark glasses routine he did sometimes when he pretended to be blind etc...
A Few Things
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Fringe. I don’t understand why it keeps falling in the ratings when it
keeps getting better. It has become this great ensemble show, rising to the
level of...
RHSNYC Friday Fun Quiz!
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Here in New York City, we've been experiencing preternaturally springlike
weather. Ordinarily this would please me, but as I get older and
increasingly cr...
Stop Trying To Make Sense
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I’ve ruined promising drawings trying to make the best (read: weirdest)
parts work better with the rest: Trying to make the whole make more sense.
Because...
Read Charles Bukowski 4 what?
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Read Charles Bukowski 4 social enlightenment? Well, maybe. Bukowski’s
poetry often presents the rest of the world as stuck in hapless darkness:
people are...
checking in
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I have been a poor blogger. That's not true: in point of fact, for a bit
over a month now I haven't been a blogger at all. I hope to get back to it
in a fe...
Breastfeeding SUCKsess
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I've written and then erased this post four times now. It is so easy for me
to get preachy and judgmental and I'm not sure that is the most
constructive us...
Fare Thee Well, Sam Samster
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Sam was the king of the Oakville cats. He was a mensch. His presence will
animate our lives long after his passing. Continue reading →
Impending move
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Just a heads up that I'll be moving this blog soon to a website of my very own... the URL here has for quite some time been www.laurenelkin.com, but the blog...
13 more characters from The Search
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Mme de Cambremer after a strenuous session of music,
her diamond earrings fallen, her headpiece of black grapes come undone.
Mlle Vinteuil recalling a spe...
(Exit followed by a bear)
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The Magpie held out hope ("here, take this piece of beauty") for as long as
was possible. The red bear was not to be bribed by something it couldn't
eat....
In 1903 (Elm Street, Ithaca, New York) my grandfather caused the death of one his sons in a most particularly awful way. It involved a thresher. He never spoke of it again. In 1942 my father’s brother was lost in the sinking of the US Independence Hall; he had been given a marlinspike knife by a British sailor, which he had given to my father for safekeeping before sailing. Passed on to me, I gave it to my nephew’s daughter. ENDGAME
PORTS
b. 1947, Ithaca
Leafy green village upstate undergraduate college
Iowa Writers’ Workshop MFA
Two years solitary cabin by lake, reading
Raleigh & Chapel Hill, reading
Commercial Beekeeper, four years
Potter and decorator, three years
Bicycle dharma bum, reading, writing
Archivist at Cornell University several years
Paris-Brest-Paris, 1200km bicycle audax, 1987
Heart surgeries
Passim: four matrimonial adventures, reading and writing
In my late fifties, founded Loudeac Tile Studio (wherein Madompna La Vogdesa and I sublimate artistic reproductions on tile and stone)
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Fascinating - I know one of the two Englishmen mentioned in this letter that Farina played with in Paris. He is writing a book with me about playing on the streets in Paris and London and beyond in the sixties... He mentions playing with Farina and his dark glasses routine he did sometimes when he pretended to be blind etc...
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